Hah! I definitely didn't mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.
It's great we have so many good options these days.
On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn't get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.
...and yet on the other hand... they are pretty cool...
That's a great point, I suspect you're right. Also the Internet wasn't something you were constantly connected to back then, so spending 45 minutes a day on stumbleupon felt more special.
Granted there's no good reason we need to be spending as much time as we do online now...
THANK YOU. I'm always saying this. People always say they miss the "old, weird internet" but it's still there and still active and still growing. But these people choose to spend their time on 2-3 highly addictive apps and complain about it. Nobody is forcing you to download Tiktok dude.
To the surprise of no one we can conclude that the sub, and reddit generally, are full of bots spreading disinfo.
But how are you drawing that conclusion? I read the thread in depth and it makes a strong case. It would not surprise me at all to learn that it was true, but I haven't been able to find where it was confirmed.
That's assuming the hypothetical superintelligence is willing to do the bidding of billionares. But I'm not sure how the billionares would control something that is smarter than them and also doesn't rely on money to stay alive.
Wow! That's like, the opposite of how you ensure a grid is robust.